Tag Neptune

Rare Astronomical Sight for a few Weeks From Now.

Beginning today and lasting for a few weeks, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars will be visible in the early morning sky, aligned roughly along the ecliptic — or the path the sun travels throughout the day. Uranus and Neptune, much…

A Solar System Family Portrait, From the Inside Out.

A Solar System Family Portrait, From the Inside Out NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has constructed the first portrait of our solar system by combining 34 images taken by the spacecraft’s Wide Angle Camera on Nov. 3 and 16, 2010. The mosaic,…